COVID-19

U.S. health officials recently approved a protein-based vaccine to protect against the most current COVID-19 variants, and it’s joining Montana’s line up of options.

Eastern Montana’s United States representative is pushing to restrict public funding for a research laboratory in Hamilton, Montana operated by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Roughly three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the state will stop publishing data on its online dashboard.

Montana, which perennially has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, also has a youth suicide rate twice the national average, according to a study released last year by the state Department of Public Health and Human Services.

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.

Delays in assistance are already leaving some low-income renters in a bind.

Two local Montana governments missed out on a previous round of federal pandemic aid due to a technicality. Sen. Jon Tester recently introduced a bill to bring the money into southwest Montana.

Law professors and attorneys said this appears to be the first time that pandemic-related laws have been challenged in court over an alleged infringement on tribal sovereignty.

Montana's fourth and eighth graders saw significant declines in math and reading comprehension during the pandemic.

August jobs data from the Montana Department of Labor and Industry shows the state is ninth in the nation in percentage of jobs recovered since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.